"The North Wind and the Sun" Aesop
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)
The status of airline pilots today.
with Clive Jacobs; Weather
Joan Bakewell talks with Louisette Andrews, now 91, who went to Russia in 1913 as a chaperone with a rich aristocratic family. She remembers pre-revolution Russia, the end of the great Tsarist epoch, a world of grand balls, high living-and Rasputin.
Puccini's brilliant comic opera.
Florence, 1299; Buoso Donati has just died. His relatives are horrified to learn that he has left all his money to the monks. Rinuccio calls in Gianni Schicchi, with whose daughter he is in love, to alter the will - which he does...
A co-production of Bayerischer Rundfunk with RM-Productions and the BBC
Reporters Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, John Pitman, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson
This week: Pity the Children
Child cruelty cases provoke strong reactions. But it is now accepted that while protecting the child is paramount, understanding the parent is better than punishment. John Robinson went to prison for attacking his 18-month-old son. Since his release he's been taken to court because, it was believed, he had again attacked the child, now aged 5. Robinson denied the charge and believes he is being victimised, blamed for every cut and bruise his child suffers.
Harold Williamson follows the court case and also sees how some London mothers, who live in fear of repeating attacks on their own children, are being helped in an experiment run by the NSPCC.
on behalf of the Conservative and Unionist Party
(Also on BBC1)
by Howard Barker
[Starring] Mary Wimbush as Margaret, Kenneth Cranham as Barry, Catherine Kessler as Kath
The lady wants more than a master-servant relationship with her chauffeur but Barry doesn't think Karl Marx would approve.
(Radio Times People: page 5)
Diaghilev, Stravinsky, Picasso and Sigmund Freud all belonged to the Edwardian period. To some their ideas threatened the Empire itself.
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